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We’ve been spoilt for choice recently for slow motion emotion here in the UK. FIFA’s “bet-fest” in Brazil offering daily glorious “slo-mo” dives, pirouettes, shin tapping and buxom fans (it’s 2014 how can they not have a TMO- oh that’s right, betting). We’ve had two weeks of the unerringly posh class division that is Wimbledon, and the BBC’s penchant for slow motion crowd- blondes, and then finally now, the start of three weeks of proletarian bliss as the grande depart […]

I got the chance to shoot a series of portraits the other month with the singer- songwriter Ariel. Portraits are an interesting process as I always have preconceived ideas of what or how the finished photos will look after seeing photographs before, and then generally speaking they are very different after shooting, processing and then editing. That’s almost entirely due to talking to the person in question whilst shooting. Your initial thoughts are important, but they only act as […]

A model tagged an image I had taken of her when she uploaded it to her portfolio on a modelling website. This doesn’t happen that often as I’m not the most productive of photographers in that area, and contrary to what people may think I don’t have a big network of model contacts who ping or text me. To be fair, I don’t have any! Anyway I thought, “that’s nice” took a look at the image, and thought, “yeah, […]

Another off travel post but still photography related. I occasionally shoot in a studio, usually no more than once or twice a year, and only when I have some reasonably (for me) well-developed ideas. These tend towards story themes or shots that could be used for book covers or the like and get submitted to an agency afterwards. I’m not a natural studio photographer, I don’t really like studio strobes, I prefer natural light. I don’t shoot with a DSLR, […]